1. Version 1. student_t_growth_curve_modeling_mar_03_2010.pdf

• NLSY real data
• R codes related to real data analysis
• NLSY digit span variable (???)

• BUGS codes for data simulation
• R codes to process simulated data from BUGS
• R codes to generate simulation submission scripts
• R codes to process the coda files
• R codes for final results process
• R function for processing DIC

• SAS codes
• Latent basis GCM in bugs
• Initial values for uniform prior

  list(A=c(NA, .25, .5, .75, NA),k=4, bL=c(6), bS = c(1), Pre_e2 = 1, rho=0, 
  Cov= structure(.Data = c(1,NA,NA,1),.Dim=c(2,2)))

• Latent basis GCM with Wishart prior
• Initial values for Wishart prior

  list(A=c(NA, .25, .5, .75, NA),k=4, bL=c(0), bS = c(0), Pre_e2 = 1,
  Inv_cov= structure(.Data = c(1,0,0,1),.Dim=c(2,2)))

• Script to run BUGS

  modelCheck("model.txt")
  modelData("data.txt")
  modelCompile()
  modelInits("inits.txt")
  modelGenInits()
  modelUpdate(10000)
  samplesSet("para")
  modelUpdate(50000)
  samplesCoda("para","coda")
  modelQuit()

• zip files

tar czvf Ndata-Tdata-0.1.tgz NdataR

• Simulate data and analyze in Mplus
• Generate student t random numbers using auxiliary variable method in R

• Estimate the covariance matrix for multivariate t